Occupy SF protester explains how he lost his home (VIDEO)

TV coverage — and critics — will focus on the clash-of-the-moment between police and demonstrators. For TV, it’s what they do. Pushing and shoving along the barricades provides compellling images to fill the bottomless desire of the 24-hour news appetite…AND it gets TV off the hook from telling the real stories of the people on the street.

And if the “99 percent” want their voices heard in Washington, they’re going to have to find a way to get the real life stories like those of Mark Schwetz heard. Years from now, few will care if protestors were able to hold space on Market Street…but they will care about a generation of people who lost their homes and health insurance.

SFgate.com and The Chronicle’s award-winning Shaky Hand Productions spent some time at the Occupy SF demonstrations. Here’s Schwetz, telling his story:

For a look at some of the people who say they are part of the 99 percent of Americans overrun by the nation’s wealthiest 1 percent, go to links.sfgate.com/ZLDK.